Category: Dash cams

Be careful when posting your dash cam video to Facebook.

Check out this video. Um, yeah, it is my opinion that he clearly ran that stop sign.

Whether you feel the issuing of the ticket after the fact was right or wrong, you should always be careful on what you post on to social media. When you post your actions on social media or the Internet, it can be used against you just as if you committed the actions in the general public. Only now they can just hit replay on your Facebook video over and over, for as many times as the jury needs to see it in order to come to a final ruling.

I knew someone that was seen making an illegal left turn by an off-duty police officer, and had the ticket mailed to her house. Also, I have heard other stories about off-duty police officers who see someone committing  a traffic violation, writing down that offender’s license plate number, and going to their house to give them the ticket when they go back on-duty. Whether you think that is right or wrong, it happens and it’s perfectly legal.

So what’s the difference between those stories and this Facebook video? The difference is that the person that posted this video should have thought “oh, I’m running a stop sign in this clip. I’d better not post this.” This person sealed his own fate when he posted that video to Facebook.

It goes to show you that you never know who is watching you when you are driving, or the clips that you choose to post to Facebook. So it is better to just obey the traffic laws whether you have a dash cam or not. Then you will never have to worry about getting a ticket days after you violated the traffic laws.

I am worried that this story might turn people off to wanting to have a dash cam. I have thought if I get in a car accident, and my dash cam shows that I am at fault, that maybe it can be subpoenaed and used against me in a lawsuit. Perhaps. However, I feel that the benefit of having the dash cam to protect you from other drivers violating the law, or worse, fleeing the scene of an accident, far outweigh the small risk of the dash cam being used against you by anyone. Especially if you drive cautiously and follow the law. I do not worry about my driving or my friends/family members’ driving, I worry about the other guy’s driving. That unknown factor is what makes that dash cam so useful. You don’t have to worry about the other person making up lies about how the accident happened, because you’ll have the visual proof.

So just make sure if you are recording your driving that you are driving as perfect as you possibly can, so no one can say anything to you about it. Click on this link to see a dash cam that goes for less than $60:
SKydot F30 Car DVR 2.7″ TFT LCD HD 1080P Dash Cam Dual Camera Rotated lens Vehicle Driving Digital Video Recorder Night Vision Portable Camcorder. You can read my review on this dash cam by clicking here.

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Thank you for reading this and be safe out there!

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This is Dash Cam Review 2.
I replaced my first dash cam, which if you read Dash Cam Review 1, you know that I was let-down by that product. This new dash cam I got now is the Carway F30  driving recorder.

I like this gadget as it records all of my driving, even though it breaks up the recordings into four minute segments. This cam has both a wide-angle lens and a telephoto lens and you have display that can show both cameras at the same time. What I do is turn off the wide lens and use the telephoto lens facing forward for the best quality. However I am still playing around with the settings to see what I like the best. My intention is to be able to have a recording of my car accident if I am in one in order to prove the other person is at fault if there is a liability dispute.

There is a SOS button on the dash cam that you can press when you are in your accident in order to keep that footage from being recorded over so you can have it if you need it. This dash cam works with a micro SD card and I am using an 8gb card in mine. It’s small enough to stay out of your line of sight so it is not blocking your view ahead. I haven’t tried it at night yet, but this cam has 8 LED infrared night vision. I do think the video quality could be better. The video resolution is either 1280 * 480 or 640*240 depending on what lens you are using. I like it overall and I think it serves it purpose for a reasonable price which I obtain for about $55. It does have a still camera mode which is good if you need to take photographs of both vehicles at the scene of the accident. The playback sound is really bad however which I think means the microphone is not good. Although I use mine with the sound off because I tend to voice my opinions of other drivers to either the person riding with me or even myself depending on how bad I think the other person is driving at the time.

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This is Dash Cam Review 1 because I am reviewing the first dash cam I tried to use. It did not work out for me and since I own a website, I’m going to tell you my experience with it. I’m not going to bash it or the company that sold it, rather I’ll just tell you what happened with mine and let you decide if you want to acquire this product.

My wife who we will call her Mrs. Helper, is encouraging  me to make this site into something great and helpful for anyone that wants to come to bestcarwreckinfo.com.  So for Father’s Day, she got me a dash cam. I don’t know the price she paid for it, but I know she got it on E-bay. It was an Advanced Portable Car Camcorder GS8000L.

When I took it out of the box, I liked what I saw because it was small and would fit easily on my car windshield. It included a USB cord, the car charger unit and ports for a micro SD card and 4 led lights on the back that I could never get to work  and by that mean I couldn’t get them to light up or record at night, which I believe is the intended function. Honestly, I had high hopes for this camera. I was recording with it right away but I could never get it to go past 9 seconds of recording before it would stop recording and then start recording again. Well, that isn’t going to work if I am trying to film a possible car accident that I may be involved in at some time. It might miss the critical part of the accident that shows who is at fault. The instructions (at least the part in English) were very vague and I tried messing with every option to get this thing to work. What I believe is that the loop function is supposed to be 2, 3 or 10 minutes, however mine was set to seconds instead of minutes for some reason.

So my wife contacted the seller on E-bay and explained what was going on and that we wanted exchange the camera for one that worked. I did not want the money back, I wanted a functional version of this camera that I thought would be great to have so I can post videos to this site. Well, first the seller wanted us to take a video of the problem, you know…because they didn’t believe us. So we did on my cell phone, which is a LG G2 and I love it! Sorry, I wanted to plug a product that actually works in this blog while telling you about another one that doesn’t. Anyways, the seller said they couldn’t open up the video and told us to ship it back to them. They did not provide any shipping material or pay for the cost, rather I had to pay the $14 to ship it from The UPS Store. They confirmed receipt of the camera and just refunded my wife the original purchase price. We asked for the shipping to be reimbursed, but they refused.

Now, I have seen two reviews on YouTube, and the reviewers seem to like this product. One of them said he bought it on Amazon.com, so I would recommend using them instead of E-bay, for this product at least. And if the people at E-bay do not like that, then they can feel free to contact the seller and get my $14 in shipping costs back to see if I might be persuaded to change my tone about this experience.  If you work at E-bay and want to contact me about this, send me a post or an e-mail and I’ll be happy to share the e-mail exchanges with you.

That last sentence seems a little harsh to me as I write it, but you know what? I want to protect you, the consumer who is probably limited in your disposable income like me and you know…most of the world. I am happy I have this medium to share this knowledge with you and I have learned so much from reading other reviews like this on the Internet. So if you have a dash cam you would recommend, please post your comment or send me an e-mail so I can check it out.

Like I said though, this is what happened to me and you may have had a great experience with this camera. If you have a dash cam, send us your videos so we can get them up on the site and we can all share our comments about what we see going on the roads out there.

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